Education

2016-2020
PhD in Philosophy
The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Dissertation Title: “Passivity: Essays in Ontology and Ethics”
Dissertation Committee: Simon Critchley, Dmitri Nikulin, Emanuela Bianchi, and Federico Finchelstein.

June-Dec 2019
Visiting Researcher at The Center for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

2014-2016
MA in Philosophy
The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Master's Thesis: “Passivity: A Phenomenology of Bottomness”
Advisor: Simon Critchley. Reader: Chiara Bottici

2012-2013
MA in Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Paris 8 – Vincennes – Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Master’s Thesis: “Toujours-déjà féminine — penser une subjectivité entre-femmes avec Luce Irigaray”. (Eng. title: “Always-Already Feminine – Thinking a Subjectivity Between-Women with Luce Irigaray”)
Advisor: Anne Emmanuelle Berger. Readers: Marie-Dominique Garnier and Nadia Setti

2011-2012
Erasmus Exchange
University of Paris 8 – Vincennes – Saint-Denis, Paris, France

2009-2011
BA in History of Ideas
Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
Bachelor’s Thesis: “Att bli-nomad och att tänka skillnad — en undersökning av Rosi Braidottis feminina feministiska subjektsfiguration.” (Eng. title: “Becoming-nomad and Thinking Difference – An Examination of Rosi Braidotti’s Feminine Feminist Subject Configuration”)
Advisor: Bernt Skovdahl

Talks

2023. “Stories of i: diminutive, pathetic, feminine”. Bataille Now Conference, at The French Institute and at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece. (Paper Presented)

2023. “slow, small, sick: a bedwritten political resistance”, Copenhagen University.

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2023. “On the Boredom of Whoredom: Rethinking Radical Passivity”, Thinking Wildly with Jack Halberstam. A Queer Studies Symposium. Uppsala University. (Paper Presented)

2022. “The Future is Femme: On the Boredom of Whoredom, or Bartleby in the Feminine.” Shaping Hopeful Futures in Times of Uncertainty: The Challenges and Possibilities of Gender Studies: The Fifth National Conference for Gender Studies in Sweden. Karlstad University. (Paper Presented)

2022. “To Listen As If Already Listening”, essay comissioned by the Bureau for Listening, read at the event A Gathering for Listening.
https://bureauforlistening.com/phase-xi-a-gathering-for-listening/

2022 “A Politics that Hesitates”, at SHOUT, a workshop on art and activism, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen.

2021 “From Agentic to Pathetic: Feminine Passivity and Passive Femininity Revisited.” 59th meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Virtual Conference. (Paper Presented)

2021 “To Be Loved: A Feminist Ethics of Feminine Passivity,” The North American Levinas Society Annual Conference. Virtual Conference. (Paper Presented)

2020 “Smaller Selves: A Queer Ethics of Diminutive i’s,” Reclaiming Futures Gender Studies Conference, Tampere University, Finland. Virtual Conference. (Paper Presented)

2020 “Angelic Passivity, Impotence, and Boredom, or Bartleby in the Feminine,” The Society for European Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Staffordshire University, UK. Virtual Conference. (Paper Presented)

2019 “Sleep as Passive Potentiality.” 58th meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (Paper Presented)

2019 “Passivity as Ambiguity: An Alternative Ontology for Philosophical and Feminist Thought.” Feminist Philosophy and the Presence of the Past, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. (Paper Presented)

2019 “Sleep and Wakefulness in Relation to the Ontological Categories of Passivity and Activity.” Sleep and Wakefulness: A Dyadic Life, Università Statale di Milano, Milan, Italy. (Paper Presented)

2017 “The Passivity of Being Human.” The Night of Philosophy, The Modern Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. (Paper Presented)

2015 Respondent to Talia Mae Bettcher's paper "From Embodiment to Empersonment: Starting Points for a Theory of Trans Gender Discontent,” The annual People in Support of Women in Philosophy Colloquium, The New School, New York, US.

2014 “Revolting Femininities.” The Revolting Peripheries Conference, Bielsko-Biała, Poland. (Paper Presented)

2014 “Always-silent, Already-passive, Forever-feminine: Rethinking Feminist Writing with Luce Irigaray.” The annual Working With Luce Irigaray Seminar, directed by Luce Irigaray, University of Bristol, England. (Paper Presented)

2014 “Féminités en transformations – Repenser silence et passivité à partir de Luce Irigaray.” Queer en trans-formation: Matérialismes, Language(s), Communautés, University of Paris 8, Paris, France. (Paper Presented)

2013 ”Féminismes et psychanalyse.” Que fait le féminisme à la pensée critique? Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris, France. (Guest Lecturer)

Teaching

Spring 2022 Guest Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pratt Institute. During the course “Contemporary Theories of Gender”.

Fall 2021 Guest Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pratt Institute. During the course “Contemporary Theories of Gender”.

Spring 2019 Teaching Fellow, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. “Luce Irigaray’s Speculum of the Other Woman.” A Philosophy One-Text Tutorial Seminar.

Fall 2018 Teaching Assistant, The Philosophy Department, The New School for Social Research. “The French Reading Group.” A Translation Seminar.

Spring and Fall 2017 Teaching Assistant, The Philosophy Department, The New School for Social Research. “The French Reading Group.” A Translation Seminar.

Spring and Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant, The Philosophy Department, The New School for Social Research. “The French Reading Group.” A Translation Seminar.

Spring and Fall 2015 Teaching Assistant, The Philosophy Department, The New School for Social Research. “The French Reading Group.” A Translation Seminar.

Awards

Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse Travel and Research Award, 2023.

Åke Wibergs Stiftelse Research Award, 2022.

Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse Travel and Writing Award, 2022.

Translation House Looren Residency and Translation Grant, 2022.

Åke Wibergs Stiftelse Research Award, 2021.

Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse Travel Award in 2021 (re-issued due to 2020 cancellation due to Covid-19)

The American Comparative Literature Association’s Travel Award. 2020 (conference and travel cancelled due to Covid-19)

The New School for Social Research, Student Travel and Research Award, 2020.

Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse Travel and Research Award, 2019.

The International Brain Research Organization Travel Grant, 2019.

The Onassis Foundation Travel and Research Grant, 2018.

The Onassis Foundation Fellowship in Ancient Greek Studies, 2016-2019.

Thanks to Scandanavia Scholarship, 2016.

The New School for Social Research Dean's Merit Scholarship 2014, 2015, 2016.

Angelica Stathopoulos

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